Vehicle wheel



All lg. 9 1927.,

1 O'. DE ARAUJO VEHICLE WHEEL Filed Mays' 1927 .lio

i` from an axle. 1

the correspondingly shaped inner perimeter of the cushion l whose exterior perimeter is correspondingly shaped and receives thereon the correspondingly shaped inner perimeter of the hollow felly 3,. the plates or rings 5 being secured to the hollow hub 2 by means of vbolts 6,7as shown in- Figure 3, disposed near the inner vperiphery of said plates or rings 5. The plates or rings 5 lare retained against lateral movement by the inner edges of the plates 7 which, extending toward the centre of the wheel,overlap the said plates as shown. Gut-away parts, such as 12, may be made in the felly 3 to afford lightness in weight. v v o p The 'Wheel hub, cushion, felly and the plates lor rings form, in eect, an internal unit for attachment and detachment to and Further, although the invention has only been describedy and shown with reference to a solid rubber cushion, yet it is to beunderequally well employed.

stood that yan equivalent cushion can be The perimeter of the hollow hub 2 land the corresponding shapes of the cushion -memberl and ofthe inner peripheryofthe `felly 3 need not vnecessarily be ofy the square form shown, but may be of any other 4suitable shape .having any number of flat sides or beingotherwise vformed so that relative rotation of the said parts cannot take' place.

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1. A resilient wheel of thekind set forth, characterized in that the abutting surfaces of the hub, felly and interposed cushion are latand arranged in prism formation to prevent their turning relatively toone another, kand that the hub and felly are hollow, and that the felly is constituted by a hollow annular Thead provided with side plates secured to said T-head by bolts passed through the same', ksaid plates extending inwardly of saidT-head Vto form .annular gaps therewardly of'said Thea-dto form annular gaps Y therebetween and the leg of the T-headed felly, and said plates Vextending beyond said felly to embrace a solid rubber tyre thereon,

and in that there extend into the gaps aforesaid, so as to be movable therein, side plates which embrace the hollow hub, cushion and vthe leg of the hollow annular T-head felly.

and are secured together by boltspassed through said hollow. hubV to prevent lateral movement of said hub,v cushion and felly relatively to one another. Y l Y l 3. A resilient wheel, includingr an angular hub portion, a felly of T-shaped cross section having a central. angular opening corresponding to the angular shape of the hub,` a cushion interposed between the angular faces of the hub and the felly, a cushion tire carried by the .periphery Aof the felly, plate members secured to the hubV and covering the cushion element rbetween the hub and the felly, and ring-like plates secured to the widened head of the Tfshaped felly and overlapping. said irst mentionedplate's and extending beyond the periphery of the felly to embracethe side portions of the tire carried by the felly. Y

In vtestimony whereof I have hereunto afxed my signature this 22nd'day of April n OLAVO DE ARAUJO.l 

